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This paper describes some new developments in survey methodology that may help to solve problems of survey taking in official statistics. The R-indicator is described as an additional indicator for...

In all European Union countries the classification of economic activities that is used in the Business Surveys is currently rebased from NACE Rev 1.1 to NACE Rev. 2. This paper describes some of the...

Benchmarking is the process to achieve mathematical consistency between low-frequency (e.g. annual) and high-frequency (e.g. quarterly) data. Statistics Netherlands is going to apply a new...

The objective of the research described in this paper is to improve the quality of the statistics of the turnover growth of the manufacturing industry. The quality parameters studied are timeliness...

Linear structural equation models (SEMs) are widely used to assess the validity and reliability of survey variables. When population means or totals are of interest, it is also important to assess...

In this paper the question is addressed how alternative data sources, such as administrative and social media data, can be used in the production of official statistics. Since most surveys at...

Organizational change (OC) is an important complementarity factor in the process of creating business value from information technology (IT) investments.. This paper investigates complementarities...

Apart from the traditional sources used by National Statistical Institutes, like sample surveys and administrative sources, nowadays more and more electronic sources of information are available that...

Using a classification method developed in this paper, the quality of qualitative survey data of the manufacturing industry at micro-economic level is investigated. For single companies, recent...

This paper by Floris van Ruth describes two methods for computing a monthly statistic based on a lower frequency, quarterly reference statistic and related monthly indicators. Both methods are based...

In the European Union tens of billions of euros are spent on regional policy every year. A major part of this amount is allocated on the basis of regional gross domestic product per capita. In this...

De publicatie Gemeente Op Maat 2011 bevat per gemeente een statistisch overzicht. De 431 publicaties zijn alfabetisch gesorteerd en gratis beschikbaar als pdf.

Paper en erratum.  De uitkomsten van dit rapport maken onderdeel uit van een studie naar personen die in en uit de Werkloosheidswet (WW) stromen. Dit rapport bevat gegevens over de...

Inventories are a useful statistic for tracking and analysing short-term economic developments. This paper by Floris van Ruth and Marcel van Velzen describes how the index of inventories of finished...

It is not only important to produce good quality statistics, but also that the users of these statistics believe that they are of good quality. Therefore, it is necessary that the subsequent...

Recently, survey literature has put forward responsive and adaptive survey designs as means to make efficient tradeoffs between survey quality and survey costs. The designs, however, restrict...

Previous international national accounting standards provided a somewhat scattered picture of pension arrangements. This made international comparability of statistics difficult, because of the...

Monthly Short Term Business statistics at Statistics Netherlands can be based on survey data, VAT records or a combination of these two data sources. Both sources are incomplete when statistics need...

In this manuscript we consider an important topic in official statistics, namely estimating the number of usual residents. For the Netherlands we investigate the under coverage of the Population...

National statistical institutes try to construct data sets that are rich in information content by combining available data as much as possible. Unfortunately, units, e.g. persons or enterprises, in...

The monthly unemployment rate is based on the data of the Dutch Labour Force Survey. In this paper a structural time series model is developed and applied to estimate the monthly unemployment rate...

Various claims have been made regarding the benefits that EnterpriseArchitecture (EA) delivers for both individual systems development projects and the organization as a whole. This paper presents...

This paper by Daan Zult and Floris van Ruth describes a new type of analytical tool, developed for detecting early signals of changes in the development of exports. It is novel in several ways; it...

Data editing is the process of checking and correcting data. In practise, these processes are often automated. A large number of constraints needs to be handled in many applications. This paper shows...